Undercover Agent *old*

I.I

A/N:

And here's chapter 2 :)

xZ

May 1st, 2012

Having been brought in on a seperate mission than the one she had been set on the year before, Kaylin made her way through the basement of a SHIELD base in Nevada. Together with Doctor Erik Selvig, she was tasked to investigate a blue cube named the Tesseract. Fury had received it somewhere in the nineties, but he had no clue what to do with it. Now, with an Asgardian God having landed on Earth, the SHIELD director put together a few of his best agents and doctors that knew more about extraterrestrial life than anyone else.

For the past year, Kaylin had kept herself busy with helping Steve Rogers adjust to the twenty-first century while also keeping an eye on others on the Avengers Initiative list. She tasked Natasha Romanoff to keep a close eye on Tony Stark while disguised as a mission for Fury. Dr Bruce Banner had been located somewhere in India, but he was left alone for the time being. And the last one on the list was Clint Barton, her colleague that was currently up his hawksnest to watch over the operation.

Stepping next to the machine that, strangely, looked a lot like an arc reactor, Dr Selvig asked politely, "May I have the room, Agent Thomas?"

Hugging her clipboard and taking a step back, Kaylin nodded her head. "You may, Dr Selvig."

Putting together the last bits of the machine, Dr Selvig stood back to admire it all. "All done." He smiled proudly. "Now we have to wait for Director Fury to give us the green light."

Doing some energy reading to just be sure it is an energy source before the testing would begin, Kaylin noted down everything odd she saw. Hearing her colleague in her ear, saying it was all good, helped a lot as well.

Making a walk around the cube, the woman frowned. "Uh. . . Dr Selvig, is it supposed to do this spiking thing after you start the GRP?"

Practically running over and inspecting what was happening, he then made his way to a computer and started mumbling to himself. "This is not good. . . This is so not good. . ."

"Not good?" Kaylin repeated and walked over to look at the screen of the computer. "What's not good?"

Dr Selvig took a deep breath before he started his explanation, "Something's about to happen and I don't think it's going to be something good."

Not wasting a second, the brunette ran to the door. "I'll inform Coulson. Doc, don't let it get worse!" She didn't hear the reaction since she was already atop the staircase, dashing through the hallways to find the project leader in his office. "Coulson, we're getting spikes from the Tesseract."

Looking up from his computer, the man frowned. "You weren't supposed to start testing yet." He tried to sound angry, or at least annoyed, but he couldn't when he was in the presence of his honorary sister.

Crossing her arms, Kaylin took to defense. "We weren't testing yet. We were only reading the energy levels to see what we're dealing with."

"Well, what happened?" Coulson wanted to know.

"Well," she repeated in mock, "as Dr Selvig was starting the GRP, some peaks were showing up at the computers. I was close enough to the Tesseract to see blue spikes coming from it and asked if it was supposed to do that. Turns out, it's not. The cube being actie could be dangerous, so Dr Selvig was worried. I came to get you on it."

Nodding along the story, Coulson understood most of it. "All right, just one question: What's GRP?"

Chuckling softly, Kaylin answered, "You know, Gamma-Radiation Program, GRP for short."